Right, and the problem is that everyone wants to be a captain of industry, but no one wants to clean the toilets. So they promise wealth to someone who cleans

Right, and the problem is that everyone wants to be a captain of industry, but no one wants to clean the toilets. So they promise wealth to someone who cleans their particularly promising toilets, but they don't really believe in the worth of that job, otherwise, they'd probably be doing it themselves (I think most programmers would sooner learn a new sector of information technology than give themselves a position as a cook on the side). It becomes "I don't want to do y, I'm much too busy with important x" ----> "Eureka, pay someone for necessary evil y" -------> "Wow, look at all this money, hey wait, my company is selling x, not y!" The fallacy is revealed when it's simplified.